The Bloody Fate

The Bloody Fate (1912)

The village clerk, Zołzikiewicz, sets his sights on Rzepowa, a beautiful but unattainable woman. He arranges for her drunken husband, unaware of what he is doing, to sign a declaration agreeing to serve in the army in place of the village headman’s son. Left alone with her child, Rzepowa faces poverty and the threat of Zołzikiewicz’s advances. Desperate for understanding and help, she turns to the court, the local authorities, the priest, the manor, and the district authorities. Finding help nowhere, she eventually gives herself to Zołzikiewicz, who has promised to destroy Rzepa’s signed declaration in return. He breaks his promise, however. Desperate and enraged, Rzepa kills his wife and sets fire to the manor house. The film has not survived.

Director: Władysław Paliński

Casts

	Maria Mirska as Maria Rzepowa
	Helena Rolandowa as
	Aniela Bogusławska as
	Teodor Roland as
	Józef Śliwicki as
	Jan Janusz as
	Antoni Bednarczyk as
	Władysław Paliński as
	Wojciech Brydziński as

Crew